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How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada

Corporate Knights

Earlier this month, Environmental Defence launched its “Canada’s climate villains” campaign , using graphic-novelesque illustrations and monikers like “Toxic Traitor” and “Ruthless Greenwasher. In Canada, as Corporate Kn ights has previously reported , they pay among the lowest average carbon costs of any sector.

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Green groups urge UN to raise climate ambition on global shipping

GreenBiz

They argue that, with the existing 2030 commitment already three-quarters met purely through the trend for slower speeds and bigger ships, there is a huge opportunity for the industry to raise its ambition at the informal meetings take place next week.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? Here are news information I collected today on the very subject. All this corroborates what I wrote at the beginning of the year on how India and China are going full speed against climate change. China, India and South Korea are. .

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The world has consumed half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials since the Paris Agreement

Envirotec Magazine

World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C C a further 19-23 billion tonnes of annual emissions must be cut by 2030, Climate Action Tracker calculates.[1]. C at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. However, new pledges still leave the world on course for 2.4°C, C, and to meet 1.5°C

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

Countries agreed to return for the next round of climate talks in November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with stronger commitments to put the world on track for 1.5°C. The Climate Action Tracker estimates the global average temperature increase based on national policies. New Climate Institute and Climate Analytics.

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New Roadmap for “Drastic” Response to Global Stocktake

Chris Hall

C are far behind the “pace and scale” required, with experts calling for policymakers to close the global gap in climate action at COP28 later this month. Efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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ESG Explainer: China’s Climate Challenge

Chris Hall

At the Leaders Climate Summit in April 2021, President Xi Jinping announced that China would control coal generation until 2025 when it will start to gradually phase it out. Independent analysts Climate Action Tracker estimate China’s emissions to have been 13.8 GtCO2e in 2020 and set to reach 13.2-14.5